Contractor wont spray field

Farmer Roy

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Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya
Err, any contractor is well within their rights to refuse to do any job, especially if they think the risk is too high, the conditions are too rough for their gear, the job is too small or difficult to be profitable, or they just don’t want to do it . . .
As a planting contractor in the past, I’ve turned down work for all the above reasons . . .
 
Just wait until the spud haulm is gone?

I would run the discs over it myself, be smoother for the man spraying it. As for seed potatoes, I wouldn't go near them.
went out to field 1st time this year boy next door has sprayed a part of his field next to suspected spud field as nothing showing above ground could be another crop its not ridged up as per usual tattie field
 
If he doesn't want to take the risk or do the job that is really down to him, I cannot really blame him if the field has not been touched after ploughing 3 years ago.
fair enough i am dealing with contractor through a 3rd party who had fert done on other fields of mine only going by what he is telling me if he does not want to do the job rather they were upfront about it and say socall a spade a shovel
 

Goweresque

Member
Location
North Wilts
Does anyone else feel that if you plant a very vulnerable crop on your boundary you shouldn't expect your neighbour to change his farming operation to benefit you? Certainly not without offering to compensate said neighbour for the inconvenience? Presumably seed potatoes are a pretty profitable crop - why should the OP lose out and the neighbour gain at his expense?
 
Are you sure the smells chemicals in Dundee!? :ROFLMAO:


Which chemicals did your friends die from exposure to?
probably them all worked for spraying firm does sprayer tank being roasting hot due to mixture reaction not say something? also over the years how many SAFE chemicals have now been BANNED from use? car coverd in yellow chemical from wheat fields 1/4 mile away wind drift farmer wont say what it is being used wonder why i have absolutly no know how about chemicals never had anything to do with them if that safe why do the sprayer boys now get all geared up like medical frontline workers
 

Wombat

Member
BASIS
Location
East yorks
Does anyone else feel that if you plant a very vulnerable crop on your boundary you shouldn't expect your neighbour to change his farming operation to benefit you? Certainly not without offering to compensate said neighbour for the inconvenience? Presumably seed potatoes are a pretty profitable crop - why should the OP lose out and the neighbour gain at his expense?

Agreed, I wouldn't deliberately let it drift onto the neighbours crop no different than if it was my own but i wouldn't not spray something as the neighbour has planted something there thats a bit "sensitive"
 

Exfarmer

Member
Location
Bury St Edmunds
probably them all worked for spraying firm does sprayer tank being roasting hot due to mixture reaction not say something? also over the years how many SAFE chemicals have now been BANNED from use? car coverd in yellow chemical from wheat fields 1/4 mile away wind drift farmer wont say what it is being used wonder why i have absolutly no know how about chemicals never had anything to do with them if that safe why do the sprayer boys now get all geared up like medical frontline workers
That dangerous yellow chemical on your is pollen!
 

Chae1

Member
Location
Aberdeenshire
probably them all worked for spraying firm does sprayer tank being roasting hot due to mixture reaction not say something? also over the years how many SAFE chemicals have now been BANNED from use? car coverd in yellow chemical from wheat fields 1/4 mile away wind drift farmer wont say what it is being used wonder why i have absolutly no know how about chemicals never had anything to do with them if that safe why do the sprayer boys now get all geared up like medical frontline workers

I've sprayed in shorts and t shirt.

Perhaps I should get some life insurance.
 

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